Do I believe that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election? No!

This is indeed nothing more than a witch hunt by Democrats and the mainstream media. They just cannot accept that their beloved Hillary Clinton lost.

Normally, a crime is committed and law enforcement goes to work on finding the perpetrator. In this case, they have an alleged perpetrator and have been working overtime to find some crime, any crime, to pin on him. Shameful.

It’s time to reiterate a point that is blatantly obvious: Whether a Supreme Court nominee is confirmed should be based on the candidate’s judicial qualifications, not whether he’s likely to lean conservative or liberal in his subsequent rulings.

That was shameful; an outgoing president isn’t “lame duck” until the roughly two and a half-month period of time between when his replacement is elected and when that replacement is sworn in.

But none of this is relevant where current Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is concerned, and by all accounts Judge Kavanaugh is highly qualified. Any senator who votes not to confirm him is, as usual, just playing politics.

— Bob Cunningham, Riverside

A bad idea to manipulate Earth’s atmosphere

Am I the only one who noticed that in the 1970s, when the environmentalists decided that we must start taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, that is when global temperatures started to rise and atmospheric disasters started to occur?

I’ve noticed that over the last 30 years, the more CO2 that we have taken out of the atmosphere, the more floods, droughts, tornadoes and deadly hurricanes are occurring. Maybe we should not try to manipulate our Earth’s atmosphere.